After months of nothing but silence, it finally appears that Epic is starting to take the wraps off of its new upcoming title called Fortnight. Epic spilled the details to Game Informer who put it in the May issue, but we have learned a lot about what is already in there.

The game itself is said to be best described as a free-to-play coorperative third-person shooter with a fort building theme that takes advantage of the day and night cycles while you try and fend off waves of enemy attacks.

The game is said to use a RPG style progressions system with a number of other familiar elements from the RPG world like looting, PvP battles, and multiple campaigns are all apart of Fortnight. The game has apparently evolved a lot since Cliff Blezinski, Mike Capps, and Rod Fergusson where at Epic.

Epic is taking sign-ups by those who want to be part of testing and playing the Alpha version here.

Epic confirmed at Comic-Con that the release of Fortnight would be the first game to use the Unreal Engine 4. The news is not an eye opener, as Epic will want something new to show off Unreal Engine 4, and what a better way than with the release of Fortnight?

The game will arrive next year, and it is billed as a PC co-op survival game where players scavenge for items within the environment to obtain food and resources to build a shelter to keep the zombies out. At night, players will defend their outpost and during the day they will look to build upon it.

The PC is the primary platform for Fortnight, with releases on the next generation of consoles expected at some point in the future. The game is expected to arrive in 2014, but release details will remain a mystery until the game is closer to ready for release.